A feather in the sky

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Dear all, I've eventually been able to process another image from data I took long ago, still during the somehow troubled startup period of my new OTA.

It is the part of Vela SNR including the feather shaped Pencil nebula and some other cirrus nebulae in the area.

Here is the main page:
http://www.glitteringlights.com/Imag..._TDh2Zbt-X3-LB

and here is the fully zoomify/full screen version:
http://astrosurf.com/lorenzi/ccd/Pencil_HaOIIIRGB.htm

This is a single frame with a total exposure of more than 13 hours. Unfortunately wasn't able to recover several more sub frames taken, in particular on the OIII, so the overall result is noisier than I planned. I will perhaps add more light as the Vela is back visible in the spring sky.

I hope you will like it.

Clear Skies
Marco

[TrevorW]

Another fine image that, well done

[atalas]

Gorgeous shot Marco!

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

That's nice Marco ... love that blue colour.


Flash.

[Garyh]

Beautiful result Marcus! Love the blending and the framing!
Hard to improve on for sure except to smooth it out a little more.
cheers Gary

[gregbradley]

Very very nice Marco. Extra exposure is always good but its already fabulous and can only get better.

Greg.

[John Hothersall]

Stunning result of such a strange object with its structure made obvious at this scale.

John.

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

That's awesome. I like the delicate look overall and the beautiful colours. A great image indeed, very well processed.

[Paul Haese]

Beautiful image. On my to do list this one.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Love those delicate wisps. Really cool. Terrific depth.

[desler]

Stunning Marco!

Darren

[astroron (Ron)]

Beautiful Image, such fine detail
Thanks for shareing
Cheers

[Alchemy (Clive)]

Some very crisp details . Nice

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by Alchemy

Some very crisp details . Nice

Thanks Clive

Originally Posted by astroron

Beautiful Image, such fine detail
Thanks for shareing
Cheers

Thanks Ron

Originally Posted by desler

Stunning Marco!

Darren

Thanks Darren

Originally Posted by multiweb

Love those delicate wisps. Really cool. Terrific depth.

Thanks Marc

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Beautiful image. On my to do list this one.

Thanks Paul!

Originally Posted by SkyViking

That's awesome. I like the delicate look overall and the beautiful colours. A great image indeed, very well processed.

Thanks Rolf

Originally Posted by John Hothersall

Stunning result of such a strange object with its structure made obvious at this scale.

John.

Thanks John, please try it with your high res optics next spring, I am sure the result will be stunning

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Very very nice Marco. Extra exposure is always good but its already fabulous and can only get better.

Greg.

Thanks Greg

Originally Posted by Garyh

Beautiful result Marcus! Love the blending and the framing!
Hard to improve on for sure except to smooth it out a little more.
cheers Gary

Thanks Gary, in reality I see a large room for improvements, if I have a chance I will add more Ha and OIII data next spring also to improve the visibility of details, it turned out a bit too "soft" to my taste..

Originally Posted by FlashDrive

That's nice Marco ... love that blue colour.

Flash.

Thanks Flash

Originally Posted by atalas

Gorgeous shot Marco!

Thanks Louie

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Another fine image that, well done

Thanks Trevor

Clear Skies
Marco

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Marco , how i said in italian forum ... this is a masterpiece ...
Congratulations for this wonderful work.

Ciao,
Leo

[Lester]

Thanks for the wonderful view Marco. All the best.

[Ross G]

A beautiful photo Marco.

Amazing colours.

Thanks.

Ross.